Oh, Stewardess? I Speak Wingnut

One day, shortly before the 2012 presidential election, I spent a fine few moments chatting with Valerie Jarrett in the stands of a high-school football stadium in Florida where the president was about to speak. He was preceded on the platform by Pitbull, a rapper of some renown and, as best i can recall, neither Jarrett nor I were able to summon up offhand much of Mr. Bull's oeuvre. We mainly talked about the troubles people were having in their attempts to vote in Florida.

Vallely ruled out impeachment, which is outlined in the Constitution, as a possible remedy. "Harry Reid still controls the Senate, so like in Clinton's day, forget about a finding of guilty," he wrote. "Incidentally, if Obama was found guilty and removed from office, Joe Biden would step in, Valerie Jarrett still wields all the power, and likely we get more of the same."

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I know that much of the American Right communicates with itself exclusively in symbols and codes and conjuring words known only to the Initiates. Therefore, I also know that a lot of people out there right now are reading nutty old former general Vallely's words and nodding knowingly at them, and saying to themselves, "Right, Valerie Jarrett. She's why it's time to oil up the old flintlock and march to the town green."